The numbers say it all. At present, India is among the top 10 countries in the world generating the highest amount of municipal solid waste. And the bigger challenge is that about 70-75 per cent of this waste remains untreated.

A solution designed by one of the world's leading polymer firms, Covestro, and its programme partners, might provide a viable alternative for construction of sustainable and energy-efficient affordable homes across India.

In the past few years, the city of Kochi has seen a heavy rush on roads leading to Palarivattom and Kakkanad. The NH-66 (old NH-47) bypass crosses one of the busiest city roads - from Palarivattom to Kakkanad - and is also nearby the busy Edapally junction, which is the meeting point of NH-17 and NH-66 (old NH-47). The heavy traffic faced, made a flyover the need of the hour.

Covered with wooded paths and spread over 328 acre, the campus at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in Rajasthan is self-contained and houses all the amenities and buildings that befit an institute of international standards.

With 2017 just around the corner, the airports sector is in takeoff mode. Under the ´Udan´ scheme devised by the government to increase connectivity, plans are on the anvil to build 200 new airports in Tier-I and Tier-II cities and renovate airstrips in disuse.